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Police have cautioned against civilians attempting to put out house fires after a Sydney man died while trying to put out a large blaze in a unit in Punchbowl, in the city's southwest, on Saturday.
Emergency services were called to the home on Highclere Avenue in Punchbowl at about 10pm on Saturday.
Fire crews rushed to a raging house in Sydney on Saturday night but when paramedics reached the occupant he could not be revived and died at the scene.
The 54-year-old man was pulled from the home in Punchbowl on Saturday night, after a blaze which may have been caused by lithium batteries.
Mourners gathered at Saint Charbel's Monastery in Punchbowl, in Sydney's west, on Monday morning to pay tribute to slain gangster mother Lametta Fadlallah.